<<<I've been reading CW history since I was a wee lad, and I've never come across any mention of kilted Confederates in the field during the war. However, the south in particular went in for elaborately uniformed militia companies in the years prior to the war. These units no longer functioned as actual militia, but had become more along the line of gentlemen's clubs, who tried to out-do each other in the area of uniforms and extravagant picnics! It wouldn't surprise me at all if kilts appeared in some of these militia groups.>>>


That would make sense, if the vogue for Scottish dress that had started early in the 19th Century in the UK had made inroads into the notions of Southern sartorial splendor. There were certainly enough Southern gentlemen of Scots descent, and many, like their British counterparts, were probably far enough removed from their humble Scottish origins to have developed a nostalgia for it, rather than being embarassed by it. As Mark Twain and others observed, the romaticism of the novels of Sir Walter Scott had a lot to do with Southern readiness to secede and fight.